Life Cycle Assessment in Management of Socially Responsible Enterprise

• Authors: Stanisław Tkaczyk , Joanna Kuzincow , Grzegorz Ganczewski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The following paper presents dangerous and evident phenomenon of communicational chaos in the field of environment protection and sustainable development in a turbulent external environment. It is pointed that this phenomenon gives organizations an opportunity to take pretended pro-environmental actions, such as socially critical greenwashing. As a counterbalance to those practices, a concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is presented, underlining the possibility of developing honest environmental marketing basing on methods such as Life Cycle Assessment.

Keywords

EN

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); carbon footprint; greenwashing; management; marketing; communicational chaos; turbulent environment; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Foundations of Management
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 71-82

Dates

published

2014-12-01

online

2015-04-23

Contributors

author

Stanisław Tkaczyk

• Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Management, Warsaw, Poland

author

Joanna Kuzincow

• COBRO – Packaging Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland

author

Grzegorz Ganczewski

• COBRO – Packaging Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/fman-2015-0019